Colonial America

General information Regarding Life in Colonial Times

• Alphabetized Lists of Colonial Occupations with Definitions - http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/occupation.html#M

• Colonial Occupations - http://www.history.org/almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

• An Interactive Chart of the 13 Colonies (lots of ads but good info) - http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blcolonial13.htm

• Information on the economy of the Thirteen Colonies - http://www.history.com/topics/colonial-economy

• Gale Student Resources in Context Database - Search “Thirteen Colonies” to get a paragraph on the founding of each colony

More Specific Information Regarding Roles
The ABC-Clio Database is the best tool for this

ABC-Clio American History Database possible search terms
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Colonial economy
Colonial merchants
Quaker Society of Friends
Colonial society
Colonial religion
Indentured servants
Or lives of indentured servants
Anglican church
Eliza Pinckney (indigo and rice plantations)
James Oglethorpe (Georgia debtor)
Colonial religion
Praying Towns also John Eliot
Pennsylvania Dutch (German Protestants)
Agrarian ideal of